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Portugal – May 13 marks 100 years since the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared in Fatima. The three children who saw Our Lady at the Cova da Iria were Lúcia Santos and her cousins, Jacinta and Francisco Marto. The Virgin visited the three children six times, appearing on the 13th of each month from May to October of […]
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Kansas City – In a statement released on May 1, 2017, Archbishop Joseph Naumann asked the priests of the Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kansas to transition away from supporting Girl Scout Troops. In his statement, Archbishop Naumann said, “To follow Jesus and his Gospel will often require us to be counter-cultural. With the promotion by
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Philadelphia – Researchers at The Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment at the children’s hospital in Philadelphia have created a plastic womb that was able to keep a premature lamb alive for four weeks after birth. The research involved lambs who were six weeks premature. Their development at this point in gestation is similar to a
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April 22, 2017 (Atchison, Kansas)–Bishop Robert Barron was honored Saturday with the Lumen Vitae award from the monks of St. Benedict’s Abbey of Atchison, Kansas. Barron, an auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles and founder of Word on Fire ministry, accepted the honor at the Kansas monks’ annual Abbot’s Table fundraising event held this year at
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April 22 on 10pm tune in to EWTN for Catholic Answers new tv show, “The Best of Catholic Answers Live”!! The pilot episode has been in the works for a year and after a few tweaks from EWTN, and they mercifully aren’t making us wait even a full week before the first broadcast. Jon Sorensen of
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Father Stanley Rother, the first recognized American-born martyr, will be beatified on Sept. 23. Fr. Rother was a priest of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma city. He served in Guatemala until he was martyred there in 1981. He is famous for returning to his Guatemalan parish, knowing he would likely die, because he said, “the shepherd
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VATICAN CITY- In May, Pope Francis will visit Fatima, Portugal for two days to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Marian apparitions there, according to a Vatican release of his trip itinerary. After visiting Saint Mary Major Basilica before his flight at 2 p.m. May 12, His holiness will then land in Monte Real at an
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ARMAGH, Northern Ireland– Celebrations in Ireland today for the feast of St Patrick emphasized building unity between Protestants and Catholics and remembering all immigrants, including the Irish in the US. On the eve of St Patrick’s Day, Catholic and Protestant cathedrals were both lit up in green to commemorate the feast day. A vigil walk,
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VATICAN CITY- Before reciting the Angelus on March 5, the first Sunday of Lent, Pope Francis encouraged pilgrims to fight temptations to sin by studying the Word of God as carefully as they study their cell phones. “Someone said: what would happen if we treated the Bible like we treat our cell phone? If we
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The Canary islands ushered in Lent with a display of blasphemy one bishop described as “the saddest day of my stay in Canarias.” They also did an impression of Jesus… The display took place during a drag queen celebration marking Carnival, or the celebration of the eve of Lent. A drag depiction
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In an address Saturday to parish priests being trained on the new annulment procedure, Pope Francis emphasized the importance of marriage preparation and support during the first years. The Pontiff encouraged priests to behave, “In such a way that your faithful recognize you not so much as experts in bureaucratic actions or judicial norms, but as
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The health industry is beginning to recognize the incredible power of a woman’s body. Earlier this month, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists released new recommendations for labor and childbirth. The board has reviewed the efficacy of interventions in low-risk women, and found that many of the formerly recommended interventions actually don’t make a
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Tokyo, Japan — Nearly 12000 people joined together for a beatification ceremony and mass in honor of Justo Takayam Ukon, a Catholic samurai and martyr, held Feb 4 in Osaka. Ukon is the first Samurai warrior to be beatified. Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints, presided over the Mass. Born in
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Norma McCorvey, “Jane Roe” (from Roe vs Wade), passed away yesterday, from heart failure according to Joshua Prager, a journalist who has written about her in the past and is currently working on a book about Roe v. Wade. She was 69. Norma had a difficult early life, and at 21, a single mother in
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After hearing about the Women’s March on Washington’s refusal to put pro-life groups in the program, these pro-choice feminists wanted to share a message with their pro-life counterpoints. They want you to know that there are still issues which they agree with. They want you to know that the choices of an organization do not
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On a recent Saturday in a moving ceremony before a large crowd of faithful, in the beautiful church of Saint Catherine of Siena in Wake Forest, Fr Philip Gerard Johnson became a priest in the diocese of Raleigh. A Greensboro, NC native, he was ordained by the Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge, Bishop of the Diocese
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Taylor Swift and her family joined a rural Missouri Catholic family for some festivities the day after Christmas. Cyrus Porter (a.k.a. “Popo”), is a World War Two veteran and a huge Taylor Swift fan. A local news story about his love for Taylor went viral earlier in the year. So when his daughter gathered the
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Protests from clerics and locals haven’t stopped the opening of a controversial new McDonald’s restaurant in the Vatican. Located approximately the length of a football field away from the Vatican State, less than 100 yards, the restaurant is downstairs in a Vatican-owned building in the Pio Borgo district of Rome. Quickly dubbed “McVatican” by locals,
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There is now an app whereby a Catholic in Spain can find a priest to meet him or her in order to be offered the sacrament of reconciliation (also known as “penance” or simply “confession”). The new app is called “Confesor Go” (note that, yes, there is one “s” in the Spanish word “confesor”), and there is
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BAHIR DAR, ETHIOPIA— Imagine one person lighting the way for 300 to join the Church, with 500 still excitedly awaiting baptism in neighboring communities. That’s exactly what happened in one Ethiopian village today, where 300 new members were joyfully received into the Ethiopian Catholic Church. “The testimony of one young believer and the diligent efforts
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